家庭暴力常常困扰着检察机关、法官和律师,遭受家庭暴力的妇女在忍无可忍的情况下,以暴抗暴,杀死施暴者,如何量刑?美国临床法医心理学家雷诺尔.沃科博士提出了著名的“受虐妇女综合症”理论,充分描述并反映了受虐妇女所表现出来的一种特殊行为模式,从而指出了她们对施暴者的暴力威胁作出的过激反应的合理性。这一理论在司法实践中的运用,突破了刑法在传统意义上对正当防卫的严格要求。 Domestic violence is often plagued by prosecutors, judges and lawyers, women subjected to domestic violence in the intolerable circumstances, to violent violence, kill the perpetrators, how to measure the sentence? US clinical forensic psychologist Dr. Reynolds. Waco made famous The theory of “battered woman syndrome” fully describes and reflects a particular pattern of behavior exhibited by battered women, thus indicating their rationale for overreacting to the threat of violence by perpetrators. The application of this theory in judicial practice has broken through the strict requirements of criminal law in the traditional sense of justifiable defense.